I can see where your Dr. is coming from. My Dr. always tells me that his primary job is to keep me out of the hospital, and that it's only a last resort.

I've been IP 3 times, at the same hospital. It's a dedicated psych hospital that has different units based on illness & acuity of illness.

My first two times were amazing - lots of therapy, regular contact with pdocs, and relatively reasonable restrictions on what we could / couldn't have and when we could leave etc.

My third time I ended up in the General Psychiatric Unit or GPU for short until another bed could be found for me in another unit. It was a nightmare. No therapy, very little private space, we couldn't close our room doors at night so other patients would wander in and out. There were patients who were obviously psychotic who talked non stop, and most people were there on involuntary holds, so it was a locked unit. I was there 5 days and left in worse shape than I arrived. Then I got transfered to a good unit.

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